Hello, On Mon 09 Dec 2024 at 03:58pm -08, Xiyue Deng wrote:
> These are valid concerns. I think the tooling from Phil should help > with your point 2 and 3. For 4-6, I personally never expect the same DD > would provide long-term support after sponsoring. Maybe making that > clear on the Debian wiki[1] would help with aligning the expectations. > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq Huh. This has always been my expectation. The sponsee is committing to maintaining it through the end of the next stable release (as any package maintainer does) and the DD is committing to reviewing and sponsoring the uploads so it's actually possible for them to do that. Of course, it's best effort as ever with volunteers, but that's not nothing. Teams are a bit different, I guess. But, for example when I said on emacs-devel today that I could sponsor that C library you might be able to help upload, I meant that it would be on a continuing basis. It doesn't seem good for Debian, or the sponsee, for the DD to sponsor it through NEW and then leave the sponsee in limbo. -- Sean Whitton
